Over 90 percent of Virginia’s counties have claimed “2nd Amendment Sanctuary” status since the Nov. 5 election that gave Democrats control of Richmond for the first time in decades. But their rhetoric doesn’t match reality. The resolutions are symbolic and have no...
Patrick Cockburn discusses the recent killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani at an airport in Baghdad. Cockburn is surprised by the boldness of the move, and thinks Iran will respond, though not necessarily in a dramatic or immediate way. More likely, he says,...
For the audio version, check out my podcast A Boy Named Pseu where you can download it on all podcast platforms. (read starts at 8:54) Read full piece here. Is it, now? Well, haven’t you heard? The 11 year fad of magic internet money is long over. Nobody is buying,...
In various writings, Milton Friedman argued that there is a variable lag between changes in money supply and its effect on real output and prices. Friedman held that in the short run changes in money supply will be followed by changes in real output. However, in the...
I don't personally think WWIII is here just yet, but that doesn't mean we can't start the party. Without meaning to be pessimistic, I do think the 2020s will be very bad for everyone. With this in mind, I wanted to start things off with a bit of levity. There's this...
The US assassinated the IRGC-Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, the deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Forces, and a senior member of Kata’ib Hezbollah in a drone strike in Baghdad. [Link] US News Portland State University will pay $1 million to the family of...
On the outskirts of the Baghdad International Airport, a US drone attacked a delegation including the top figure in Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), killing him as well as several others, including Iran’s Quds Forces commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The White...
The US went into this past week with about 5,000 ground troops in Iraq, and with Pentagon officials suggesting that deployment is more or less permanent. It was meant to be one of those lazy, open-ended overseas deployments, nominally to bring stability. Then on...
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